Zaha's Serpentine Sackler Gallery completes

The £14.5 million Serpentine Sackler Gallery is Zaha Hadid’s first completed permanent building in central London.

Made possible by the largest donation in the gallery’s history, the revamp of the grade II-listed 1805 Magazine building, a former gunpowder store, is just yards from the gallery in Kensington Gardens, London.

The scheme features a ‘playfully undulating’ lightweight tensile pavilion addition which connects to the brickwork of the listed building.

Hadid’s extension provides a café or restaurant and social space to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.

The landscape around the new building will be designed and planted by the landscape artist Arabella Lennox-Boyd.

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